"These decisions should be made by career law enforcement professionals on the merits. Law enforcement should not be driven by political agendas."
"Let me say what I think is frustrating about this whole issue of raising taxes either to spend more or to reduce the deficit, whatever the motive is, particularly in a time of such high unemployment w..."
"I take your word for it, but it is certainly a poor reflection on your tenure there if you did not know about these investments."
"This may seem like a simple question, but don't these CBO projections indicate that spending is the problem and will become an even bigger problem at the end of the 10-year window?"
"I think the academic literature is very clear. There is a strong support for evidence that shows that lower level of taxes are associated with higher level of growth, and the reverse is true."
"The President in 2008 ran on a platform of increasing taxes. Before he was sworn in, he made an announcement that during a time of such high unemployment--and it was not even 10 percent then; it event..."
"I have got email here from a group over in the Defense Department that I sent a letter with 78 questions in it, and a person in charge of that said, 'F Grassley, whether or not we are going to answer ..."
"Now, to me, this is outrageous. Will you remedy this loophole given that you wrote DACA?"
"I think we have seen it in the fiscal tax deal where Congress proceeded to increase marginal tax rates but also to give a lot of--to extend a lot of the tax extenders to corporate businesses."
"I believe quite strongly we should get Government out of the business of business by reducing the marginal tax rate on U.S. corporations to something in the mid-20s and to pay for that through the eli..."
"Clearly, violent crimes and those who commit them are a plague on our society, one that has been with us for far too long."